Virginia Ariu

Virginia Ariu is an Italian-born visual artist (born 1992) who lives and works in Zürich. Her practice combines sculpture, photography, collage, painting and readymades into installations. She examines human relationships and social systems such as architecture, infrastructure and technology. She was a resident at La Becque in La Tour-de-Peilz in 2023 as an ECAL/EXECAL alumna, where she developed sculptural-photographic hybrids drawing on Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium.